Posted on 07/26/2007 1:17:56 PM PDT by vadum
"Don't drink the water" is a warning doctors and public health officials typically give travelers going overseas. But lately some environmentalists and city officials have been saying the same thing. Only this time they're trying to prevent American consumers from drinking bottled water.
Their reasoning? The energy used to package and transport imported bottled water contributes to global warming. If environmentalist groups have their way, grocery shelves will no longer carry popular products like Fiji from the South Pacific island and Evian from France.
Companies like Fiji and Evian emphasize the cleanliness and purity of their water. Fiji says its water comes from a source "far from pollution" and is "designed to prevent any possibility of human contact." Evian's spring water comes from the French Alps. You would think this water ought to be an environmentalist's dream.
Instead, their bottles provoke nightmares. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council says, "It's ironic that on some of the labels of the bottles, you see snow-capped mountains and glaciers when in fact the production of the bottle is contributing to global warming, which is melting those snowcaps and those glaciers."
Complaints like that have led San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to issue an executive order banning city departments from purchasing bottled water, even for water coolers.
And Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson ordered his city's Fire Department to replace the usual chests of bottled water and sports drinks used to quench firefighters' thirst. Every firefighter will now be given a refillable 10-ounce container instead. And, get this, two city personnel will be assigned to fill them as they fight fires. I thought only high-schoolers got the job of water boy.......
FROM: http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=482
FULL ARTICLE AVAILABLE AT: http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/COMMENTARY/107260001
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Make them brush after eating/drinking sugar.
Say what? ;)
During the Clinton/Gore administration they were told they had to buy a filtering machine ($100,000)that was guaranteed to produce water less pure than their's coming out of the ground.
A lot of bottled water has as its source some "municipal water supply," therefore, wouldn't be more healthy than most cities because it is city water.
The important thing is to check THE SOURCE. The bottle does not purify the water!
I’ve known that for years. Most bottled water comes from local municiple water supplies. They just run it through a charcol filter system to make it taste better and remove some of the impurities and then sell it to the unsuspecting.
The worst thing anyone can do is buy water from those machines outside the grocery stores. Tests have found all kinds of things growing inside them.
“What color is the sky in their world?”
Whatever color Al Gore says it is today. Answer varies by day and enviro-guru.
Nevermind. Go back to see spot run.
It’s not like a coating of paint. It has to be part of the metabolism of young teeth as they form. It has to be ingested.
“Personally I would never injest any liquid that has not been properly “treated”. :-))”
My kind of treatment plant! I’ve seen similar to that in the photo in “micro” facilities, and have really enjoyed the treated liquid! :)
This is kind of interesting. I ran a fluoridation campaign in a town I used to live in many years ago. I went all over town speaking to groups about fluoridation. I went on TV and radio and presented to the city council. I worked real hard but the issue failed.
I was kinda glad because it meant more business for me and the other dentists in town.
The really sad part was the number of kids who would pay a very high price for that.
The problem was/is that some kids had water with enough F- and other kids had water without enough F-. It wasn’t fair, but life isn’t fair. I just kept taking babies to the OR and fixing them. It’s good money!
Most beers have quite a lot of fluoride. So does tea.
Do you think fluorides should be removed from public water? I mean the naturally occurring fluorides?
Or should foods have the fluorides removed?
“This is kind of interesting. I ran a fluoridation campaign in a town I used to live in many years ago.”
With all that said, it would be tough to have to admit that fluorides are not what we were all taught 50 or 60 years ago, wouldn’t it. Perhaps you should take a serious look at fluorosis - skeletal fluorosis does occur in this country as well as in India and China, but is often misdiagnosed. Dental fluorosis also occurs in this country - have you seen it in any of your patients? Makes for really ugly teeth.
Many of the old paradymes - medical, dental, nutritional - have been seriously wrong. Amalgam fillings, are a case in point regarding the practice of denistry. Mercury is toxic. Mercury in vaccines is another case in point. Mercury is no doubt a major factor in autism. And in some instances mercury in the mother’s amalgam fillings may have been responsible for a child’s autism, exposure having occurred in the womb.
Nutritionally speaking, we were taught that saturated fats were bad and the polyunsaturated fats in vegetable oils like corn & soy were good. Eat margarine, not butter. Eat egg whites and throw away the yoke (Egg Beaters). Wrong on all counts. When potato chips were cooked in coconut or other palm oil, when theater popcorn was popped in coconut oil, these snack foods were a lot more healthy than they are now, fried in polyunsaturated vegetable oils.
“Most beers have quite a lot of fluoride. So does tea.”
Red tea and black tea are highest in fluoride content. Beers have fluorides if made from water containing fluorides, or if fluorides are added to the beer.
The German’s used fluorides in the concentration camps to make the prisoners docile and easier to manage.
If you really care about the hazards and the history of fluorides and the politics and economics of their becoming an addition to municipal water supplies, read this rather lengthy report, “Fluoride Adverse Health Effects”, found here http://curezone.com/dental/fluoride.html
This is one of many commentaries about the serious adverse health effects of fluorides.
“Do you think fluorides should be removed from public water? I mean the naturally occurring fluorides?”
Fluorides are poison to the human body, even at the level used to treat most municipal water supplies. Fluorides should not be added to public water supplies. When public water supplies have naturally occurring fluorides, the level should be made public, loud and clear, and this publicity should be ongoing. The hazards of drinking the water whould be noted and safe options should be noted. This publicity should include photos of people showing both dental and skeletal fluorosis, including extreme cases of each. Lets talk about broken hips and lowered IQ’s, and all of the other adverse effects of fluorides relating to human health.
A good reverse osmosis system will remove 90 to 99 percent of fluorides in water. Distillation is generally better at removing fluorides. Either can be done today at reasonable cost to eliminate fluorides and chlorine from water that is consumed in the home.
I can just as accurately state that water is poison to the human body.
Anti-amalgam and anti-fluoride go together well especially combined with holistic dentistry.
Fortunately some of those types are put in prison.
Mercury is toxic as is everything else.
BTW, are you aware of the chemicals in dental resins. I mean, what about the BisGMA stuff?
Firefighters will be issued a “refillable 10 ounce container”????
WTF???
I carry 2 22 ounce bottles on a fanny pack and 2 more same size on my saddle when I am riding. I am never using the same amount of activity that requires water intake the same as a firefighter....
10 ounces??? Piddly amount, IMO.
Bottled water is bad for young children. I just came back from my dentist who told me there is no fluoridation in bottled water and without it kids get more cavities.”
Then thee are those who think that all the chemical additives to the public water supply are a factor in all the childhood problems we have today which we didn’t have 50 years ago.
Control the contents of the water supply and control the population??
I like my private well.
“I can just as accurately state that water is poison to the human body.”
Water can cause death by asphyxiation, or by over diluting body fluids (as has happened a few times with marathon runners who have over hydrated their bodies. Water is not poison by any stretch of the immagination nor by any stretch of science.
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